Nick Dominguez

I stumbled on to this today while visiting, the “Internet Archive”:http://www.archive.org. It had been awhile since I visited the site, so there seemed to be alot of new content I hadn’t seen before, one thing that caught my eye immediately was the live audio archive, so I decided to check it out.

The live audio archive has a ton of really great downloadable live performances from bands. One of my favorite bands of all time is “Fugazi”:http://www.dischord.com/bands/fugazi.shtml and I saw they have 6 live shows that are available on the site to download. I’m sure I’ll be spending a fair amount of time browsing through the rest of the archives but I just wanted to share this little gem that I found today. Enjoy.

“Fugazi Live Music Archive”:http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Fugazi

This hurricane definetly took us by surprise, I think most of us thought that it would be arriving at our shores at about a 1 or a 2 category but that was definetly not the case, it hit us at a strong category 3 (125 MPH winds). So 2+ million residents in the South Florida area were left without power for almost a week, as I write this there are still a number of people without power.

Perhaps the strangest thing about this whole episode is how much my neighborhood and pretty much most of my area has changed visually. So many trees have been either stripped of their foliage or have been knocked down that many landmarks and familiar scenes of daily life change in a matter of a day, it’s a quite odd experience and really has to be experience to be fully understood.

Below is a collection of the various extensions and applications I’m currently using to work and play with.

h3. “IETab View”:http://ietab.mozdev.org/

This is by far the most useful tool that I’ve found recently. I was using the IE View extension for Firefox before but this extension lets you switch between IE and Mozilla’s rendering engine right inside of Firefox.

h3. “Web Developer
Toolbar”:http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

This is a pretty well known extension for Firefox, but I thought I would list it just in case there was anyone there that wasn’t familiar with it.

h3. “HTML Validator”:http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

I’ve always thought it best to validate early on in the process, this extension gives me a little icon at the bottom of Firefox with validation status, very handy in tackling problems early on.

h3. “Vienna”:http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.html

I’ve been looking for an open source RSS reader on the Mac for awhile now and I think I’ve finally found what I’m looking for in Vienna. Some of my favorite features of this reader are “Smart” folders, Flagged articles, Group inboxes, and the import/export feature, plus Vienna is a cocoa based application so that’s always nice. Definetly check it out if you’re on a Mac and don’t want to shell out cash for a news reader.

h3. “Stand”:http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

The latest version of Saft for Safari is really nice, the first version that I’ve actually been using since it came out. Right now I’m really digging the sidebar and skinning features that it has. Hopefully more features will get rolled into the sidebar in future releases.

h3. “FontExplorer X”:http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

FontExplorer X is a really nice free font manager for Mac. I haven’t been using this app for very long but so far it’s been really nice.

I’ll be expanding this list as I pick up more tools that I find useful as well.

We (Pop Up Records) have decided to take on a new endeavor which I’m pretty excited about. “Bark Promotion”:http://www.barkpr.com. Bark is a digital pr agency, we will be focusing solely on blogs and e-zines to promote independant artists and their records. I think that music and mp3 blogs have definetly reached the point of maturity and deserved to be treated as a legitimate form of media. We saw this space as being underserviced so we wanted to create an agency that would remedy that.